[p2pu-dev] interesting project - oer glue

[Nadeem Shabir]

Dan,
Completely agree with your assessment. Much of the work I'm doing at the
moment at Talis occupies a similar space as OER Glue. Like you, Dan, i'm not
at all convinced by the current thinking around LMS technologies and the
supposed portability of SCORM. It's nice to see someone else following an
approach that feels "of the web".

Philipp,
I'm particularly interested in trying to understand how this fits in with "*an
open lab would let us leverage the curiosity of our community to extend to
more tools and content*". I have some thoughts around that but need to make
them coherent.



I think from P2PU perspective there's a great deal we could potentially do
with OER Glue

On 25 October 2011 20:00, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is a very novel approach to aggregating content on the open web and I
> used it back in March after Maria Droujkova organized a webinar to demo OER
> Glue. The two bullets at the end summarize it well from a high level
> perspective:
>
>    - Use Content Where it is
>    - Integrate with Everyone
>
> So instead of binding up your course content in a SCORM, Common Cartridge
> or other proprietary format and installing it an LMS, OER GLue sort of acts
> like a "content clipping service." Using a Chrome Extension you surf the
> open web and "clip content" from diverse sources to build up a course. It
> operates much like an old newspaper clipping service or news morgue.
>
> For some reason their site says the extension isn't available yet:
>
> http://www.oerglue.com/download
>
> But you can get a copy of  the OER Glue Chrome Extension here:
>
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ddfgedkopdndpjhaabkiihdpjlafaeec
>
> There are some tricky problems to overcome to do take this approach but I
> am convinced open learning materials have to be constructed using content
> that is freely available and not bound to a LMS or an iron maiden container
> like SCORM. So I really like what OER Glue is doing. Morerover, in fields
> such as webcraft all the learning materials for modern technologies are in
> physical books you buy or online in blogs, standards, ebooks, tutorials,
> videos on the open web. Nobody has high quality content for emerging web
> technologies in a LMS. The most you will find on emerging web technologies
> are courses based on of videos behind a paywall from providers such as
> Lynda, pluralsight-training.net, learnable and others. Many of these
> courses have little or no social interaction with the instructor or other
> course participants.
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> Adding joel and justin from OER Glue to the thread (if you want - just hit
>> reply to the list, and we'll authorize you as the messages come in) P
>>
>> On 25 October 2011 19:31, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Went to an interesting presentation about OER Glue today. Dan had
>>> mentioned them to me before - and I'd looked at their site a while back, but
>>> there wan't much to see at that time. Not all of the features might be
>>> production ready - but they showed screencasts of a lot of the mashup
>>> options.
>>>
>>>  The overall vision focuses on enabling instructors to provide better
>>> courses to students - within institutions. But a lot of the themes are
>>> directly related to P2PU original vision of creating a social layer for OER,
>>> and our plans for becoming a lab. Except that an open lab would let us
>>> leverage the curiosity of our community to extend to more tools and content.
>>> OER Glue is aiming to build the key connectors themselves.
>>>
>>> I asked about open source, and apparently a lot of the code is GPL v3.
>>> The "proxy" is not - and I didn't totally understand the role of the proxy,
>>> but hopefully someone more technical than me can check it out.
>>>
>>>  *OER Glue*
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Mainly focused at 'instructors' right now
>>>    - Pervasively mashing up the OER web
>>>    - "It's impossible to keep up with all the cool tools - and why would
>>>    you want to? If there is a great tool, use it."
>>>    - There is a lot of good content out there
>>>    - There are a lot of great tools out there
>>>    - How do we create effective learning experiences that connect the
>>>    content with the tools?
>>>    - Discover - search and recommendation to find good content
>>>    - Assemble - drag and drop mashup tools
>>>    - Deploy - embed in your own platform (or use OER Glue's platform)
>>>    - Track - track your activities across many different spaces [THIS IS
>>>    UNIQUE - we can track what learners are doing on other platform, what are
>>>    they doing, how long are they spending there, etc.]
>>>    - We aim to be invisible
>>>    - Building add-ons to LMS (Canvas, BlackBoard)
>>>    - Connect back into your own gradebook
>>>    - Also mentioned Red Rover (Peer 2 Peer Learning for the Enterprise)
>>>    - http://redroverhq.com/product/
>>>    - Building  a more scalable search and discovery platform by
>>>    connecting into repositories
>>>    - What happens when the content goes away / changes?
>>>       - A: You always link to the existing content. It's always current,
>>>       but what if it goes away? Strategy we have taken is to snapshot the content
>>>       so authors can use a particular version. And we notify you of changes to the
>>>       original version.
>>>    - Gives institutions the ability to pay attention to CC metadata to
>>>    make sure there are no copyright issues (for materials that have the meta
>>>    data embedded)
>>>    - joel at oerglue.com
>>>
>>>  Two key strategies (I like the way they frame this)
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Use Content Where it is
>>>    - Integrate with Everyone
>>>
>>>  Technology
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Browser extension - toolbar that tracks your activity across the
>>>    web
>>>    - Refining the tool to allow through a proxy (didn't quite understand
>>>    how that works)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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